Torquemada wrote:He ran as a politician. You saw the same thing with Bob Dole in 1996. He went on SNL and was witty, funny, and almost charismatic, and it was like, "Where the hell was this guy during the election?"

Politicians are like rock stars. They have image consultants and managers who tell them what they have to say and do, and sculpt and mould them over time into what they think that John Q. Public wants to vote for: America, apple pie, kissing babies, etc. I don't support much of Obama's platform, and he is incredibly artificial/scripted, but he managed to present the appearance that he isn't, and that's extremely novel at the presidential level of politics.

Same thing with Mcain. My brother had a hardon for obama from the beginning, when we saw Mcain's concession speech, I told my brother "If he'd been more like that, he would have won." And I heard that same exact sentiment on the radio the next day.

Melathys wrote:Same thing with Mcain. My brother had a hardon for obama from the beginning, when we saw Mcain's concession speech, I told my brother "If he'd been more like that, he would have won." And I heard that same exact sentiment on the radio the next day.

Melathys wrote:Same thing with Mcain. My brother had a hardon for obama from the beginning, when we saw Mcain's concession speech, I told my brother "If he'd been more like that, he would have won." And I heard that same exact sentiment on the radio the next day.

He ran as a mild as milktoast wuss. He barely seemed to play up the veteran/POW card, instead focusing on calling everyone friend and being a nice guy. In reality, he's famous for being a hothead, cursing people out in the Senate, and having a horrible temper. I would have voted for that guy over the drone we got.

My favorite story about him was when he ran for Congress the first time. He'd married Cindy and moved to Arizona to help run her dad's Golden Eagle(Budweiser) distributorship. He was called a carpetbagger by some guy at a public event.

His reply: "Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi."

shit if we had that during the election 4 years ago...he might have won!

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Not to mention that Romney had his own list of 'Free' stuff to giveFree stuff for young people: Increase spending on pell grants/student loans.Free heathcare via the emergency room.Free stuff for seniors: Increase spending on Medicare (because Obamacare cut it!).Free stuff for military contractors because of increase spending on the Military.Free stuff for the 1%: Reduced taxesFree stuff for corporations: Reduce taxes.Free stuff for oil companies: remove 'expensive' regulations/government fees.

Yeah, being facetious on the last part of my post, but its thursday morning and i got this terrible coffee that I have to drink...

"If I leave the prices the same, but say on the menu that there is a 5 percent surcharge for Obamacare, customers have two choices. They can either pay it and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server, who is the primary beneficiary of Obamacare," Metz told The Huffington Post. "Although it may sound terrible that I'm doing this, it's the only alternative. I've got to pass the cost on to the consumer."

Yahoo Article wrote:...because nominee Mitt Romney did not respond to criticism strongly enough or outline a specific agenda with a broad appeal.

"We need to figure out what we did right and what we did wrong, how we can improve our tone, our message, our technology, our turnout — all the things that are required to win elections," McDonnell said. "We are disappointed, but we are not discouraged."

"They spent all their time making Mitt Romney unacceptable and making him out to be someone who was untrustworthy and unacceptable to enough of the American people — and it worked," Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said in an interview."

"In the hallways at the conference, the governors and their top advisers uniformly blamed Romney's loss on an uneven communications strategy. They said Romney allowed himself to be branded a corporate raider who put the interests of the wealthy above those of middle-income voters."

Yep. Totally just a Romney Problem. Total all about communications. Totally all about making Romney out to be a smarmy bastard.

It had nothing to do with their archaic batshit stupidity over

AbortionRapeGay RightsThe Latino Community The African American CommunityThe Female Population.

It's all because they are technologically backward dolts who couldn't find a way to get the bully to stop throwing rocks at their best guy.

I'm here. I'm sure there is probably stuff here that I'd like to post about between this and the sports thread, but I just don't have time to post. I'm mostly just doing moderator stuff, checking on reported posts (which fortunately there hasn't been much) and deleting spam. I do peek into some threads to make sure there isn't a flame war going but that's about it.

"If I leave the prices the same, but say on the menu that there is a 5 percent surcharge for Obamacare, customers have two choices. They can either pay it and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server, who is the primary beneficiary of Obamacare," Metz told The Huffington Post. "Although it may sound terrible that I'm doing this, it's the only alternative. I've got to pass the cost on to the consumer."

Of course, he could have just raised his prices without being a dick about it.

he could have also waited until it takes effect...i dont get ppl like them, there is a coal mine owner that has already canned ppl just cause obama won the electiondoesnt matter his tazes wont go up for a year or two yet

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Shoju wrote:No, it's not that Romney doesn't get it. The GOP doesn't get it.

Yeah, the GOP doesn't get it, and Romney seems to be the current unofficial spokesperson of the ideology the GOP has.

I mean, it seems the 47% remark is really how he feels about america, considering the following quote was just made some days ago

“You can imagine for somebody making $25,000 or $30,000 or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free healthcare, particularly if you don’t have it, getting free healthcare worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity. I mean, this is huge,” Romney said, the New York Times reported.

“In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day,” Charlie Webster told Portland, Maine’s NBC affiliate on Wednesday. “Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen? I don’t know. We’re going to find out.”

"So is Romney's very low tax rate (compared with mine), for example, not a gift from the government? Are all the net federal transfers of wealth to red states not also, by that logic, a gift? What would Romney call getting offered a job with zero risk (Bain Capital), and a promise that if the investments did not work out, he could go back to his old job with no penalty, and retroactively get all his previous salary paid? Was that a gift as well? Or was that thriving, striving, Deseret?"

ThinkProgress is pretty much the liberal version of TheDailyBeast, so anything you read there should be taken with more than a single grain of salt.

The very article that your link cites describes how the key whistleblower to this alleged conspiracy is, himself, "accused of stealing $200,000 from the party through a phony campaign fundraising operation. He, in turn, has sued the party, saying GOP leaders knew what he was doing and voiced no objection."

Also worth noting is this quote:

Former Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning, a Republican, has spoken favorably about HB 1355, because he believes its 12-hour early voting days — the law previously limited them to eight hours a day — give voters more flexibility to vote before or after work.

“But reducing early voting days does not attack voter fraud and given the longer days, it certainly does not save money,” Browning has said.

The bill the republicans passed which limited early voting days did so because it extended hours the polls were open on fewer days, keeping the total number of hours when a person can vote early equal. That's a relatively reasonable and defensible idea, and should be discussed on its merits or lack thereof.

Your link implies intent at deliberate voter suppression, which is a rather extraordinary claim, without very much in the way of convincing evidence. Far more likely is unintentional voter suppression; misunderstanding the considerations of working-class poor people.

The whole "in-person voter impersonation fraud" concept IS totally baseless and silly, though. The GOP make themselves look like deliberate Machiavellis when they bring it up, because there is no evidence to support it being a real thing happening anywhere. Most voter fraud is absentee-ballot related, which makes sense if you think about it. You cant steal an election by going into a polling place over and over pretending to be all of your neighbors and dead relatives; you simply wont be adding that many votes in the scheme of things and the chance of being caught is too great. You steal elections by stuffing ballot boxes. But most absentee-ballots are military members, which tend to be a GOP constituency, so that fact is ignored.

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Brekkie wrote:ThinkProgress is pretty much the liberal version of TheDailyBeast, so anything you read there should be taken with more than a single grain of salt.

The very article that your link cites describes how the key whistleblower to this alleged conspiracy is, himself, "accused of stealing $200,000 from the party through a phony campaign fundraising operation. He, in turn, has sued the party, saying GOP leaders knew what he was doing and voiced no objection."

Yeah, I put ThinkProgress up there with The Blaze as far as impartiality. Also of note as one of the accusers is Charlie Crist, who's still butt hurt that Floridia Republicans didn't nominate him for Senate, so he dropped the party, ran as an Independent, and still lost to Marco Rubio. So yeah, kind of someone with an axe to grind.